HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
February 28, 1865.

Governor FLETCHER,

Jefferson City:

General Pope is in the city. You had better come down and see him if you can.

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO., February 28, 1865.

Major HANNAHS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

The bridge over the White Water on Bloomfield road was washed off last Sunday. I had men there at the time, but they could not save it. Have ordered the assistant quartermaster here to rebuilt it as soon as possible. I will start to Bloomfield in about an hour.

H. M. HILLER,

Lieutenant-Colonel.

PATTERSON, February 28, 1865.

Colonel BEVERIDGE,

Pilot Knob:

We have direct information that Reves, Kitchen, and Freeman are at or near Cherokee Bay. Was reported with from 300 to 3,000 men. What they intend to do not known.

JAS. SMITH,

Captain, Commanding Post.

P. S. - Send us from regimental headquarters 3,000 rounds Spencer carbine ammunition.

J. S.

LICKING, TEXAS COUNTY, MO., February 28, 1865.

Captain J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, District of Rolla:

CAPTAIN: The scouts sent below Thomasville have not yet returned. From best information I can gain, Freeman is in Arkansas near head of Spring River. He has not over 250 men. There are very few bushwhackers in this section. A company of citizens guards was organized here to-day.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. C. CATHERWOOD,

Colonel Thirteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DIST. OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI, Numbers 55.
Springfield, Mo., February 28, 1865.

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III. Captain William Brixey, Company G, Forty-sixth Missouri Infantry Volunteers, commanding at Bloomington, Mo., will upon receipt of this order leave a detachment of one lieutenant and twenty men at